Haskell Athletics, and Coach Chad Kills Crow announce the signing of 6'9 power forward Ron Rousseau to the 2012-2013 Haskell Indians Men's Basketball Team.  Rousseau, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe completed his high school education at Cheyenne-Eagle Butte located in Eagle Butte, South Dakota.  Rousseau was coached by Jesse Mendoza, a 2012 South Dakota High School Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee. 

In the spring of 2010, Rousseau entered United Tribes Technical College, a junior college in Bismarck, North Dakota.  In May 2011 he graduated with an associate's degree in Criminal Justice.    

In his single season with the UTTC Thunderbirds (2010-2011), Rousseau averaged 12.5 points per game, and pulled down 9.4 rebounds per game.  Rousseau was named to the Mon-Dak All-Conference Academic Team, and earned team recognition as the Most Improved.

Rousseau was deployed to Afghanistan shortly after his graduation from UTTC, and most recently returned to the States.   

Haskell Athletics welcomes Ron, his wife Dorci, and their family to the Haskell family.